Consciousness in the physical world: perspectives on Russellian monism

473 Pages·2015·31.416 MB·English

by  Alter, Torin Andrew;Russell, Bertrand

Consciousness in the Physical World
PHILOSOPHY OF MIND
Series Editor:
David J. Chalmers, Australian National University and New York University
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Owen Flanagan Andy Clark
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Stephen Stich William Fish
The Conscious Mind Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind
David J. Chalmers Robert D. Rupert
Minds and Bodies The Character of Consciousness
Colin McGinn David J. Chalmers
What’s Within? Perceiving the World
Fiona Cowie Bence Nanay (editor)
The Human Animal The Contents of Visual Experience
Eric T. Olson Susanna Siegel
Dreaming Souls The Senses
Owen Flanagan Fiona Macpherson (editor)
Consciousness and Cognition Attention is Cognitive Unison
Michael Thau Christopher Mole
Thinking Without Words Consciousness and the Prospects of Physicalism
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U.T. Place (author), George Graham, Declan Smithies and Daniel Stoljar (editors)
Elizabeth R. Valentine (editors)
The Conscious Brain
Purple Haze Jesse J. Prinz
Joseph Levine
Decomposing the Will
Three Faces of Desire Andy Clark, Julian Kiverstein,
Timothy Schroeder and Tillmann Vierkant (editors)
A Place for Consciousness Phenomenal Intentionality
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Ignorance and Imagination The Peripheral Mind
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Simulating Minds The Innocent Eye
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Gut Reactions Does Perception Have Content?
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Phenomenal Concepts and Phenomenal The Varieties of Consciousness
Knowledge Uriah Kriegel
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Beyond Reduction Torin Alter and Yujin Nagasawa (editors)
Steven Horst
What Are We?
Eric T. Olson
Consciousness in
the Physical World
Perspectives on
Russellian Monism
Edited by
TORIN ALTER
YUJIN NAGASAWA
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Consciousness in the physical world : perspectives on Russellian monism / edited by Torin
Alter and Yujin Nagasawa
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1. Consciousness. 2. Monism. 3. Russell, Bertrand, 1872–1970. 4. Materialism.
5. Dualism. I. Alter, Torin Andrew, 1963–editor.
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Contents
Acknowledgments  vii
Contributors  ix
Editors’ Introduction—Torin AlTer And Yujin nAgAsAwA  1
PART I: Precursors
1. Monadology 17 and Letter to De Volder
(excerpt)—goTTfried wilhelm von leibniz  17
2. Critique of Pure Reason,
A270/B326–A278/B334 (excerpt)—immAnuel KAnT 19
3. The Principles of Psychology (excerpt)—williAm jAmes  23
PART II: Russell and Commentaries
4. Excerpts from Analysis of Matter (1927), Human Knowledge: Its
Scope and Limits (1948), Portraits from Memory (1956), and
My Philosophical Development (1959)—berTrAnd russell  29
5. Russell, Russellian Monism, and
Panpsychism—leopold sTubenberg  58
6. Russell on Russellian Monism—donovAn wishon  91
vi Contents
PART III: Modern Classics and Recent Works
7. Rigid Designators and Mind–Brain Identity
(excerpt)—grover mAxwell 121
8. The Grain Problem—michAel locKwood  143
9. Real Materialism (with new
postscript)—gAlen sTrAwson 161
10. Russellian Physicalism—bArbArA gAil monTero  209
11. Causality and the Combination Problem—gregg rosenberg  224
12. Panpsychism and Panprotopsychism—dAvid j. chAlmers  246
13. The Short Slide from A Posteriori Physicalism to Russellian
Monism—Torin AlTer And roberT j. howell  277
14. Consciousness, Physicalism, and Absolutely Intrinsic
Properties—derK pereboom  300
15. Russellian Monism or Nagelian Monism?—dAniel sToljAr  324
16. A Physicalist Critique of Russellian Monism—AlYssA neY  346
17. Against Constitutive Russellian Monism—philip goff  370
18. Pessimism about Russellian Monism—AmY Kind  401
19. What Is Russellian Monism?—Torin AlTer And
Yujin nAgAsAwA  422
Name Index 453
Subject Index 459
Acknowledgments
DaviD Chalmers, Derk Pereboom, Howard Robinson, Seth Shabo, Galen
Strawson, Leopold Stubenberg, and two anonymous reviewers gave us useful
comments and suggestions. Donovan Wishon was especially helpful in rec-
ommending Russell selections. Tyler Brockett, Mitchell Dykstra, and Sarah-
Louise Johnson helped us to prepare the manuscript. We thank them all. We
are also grateful to the authors and publishers who let us reprint their work
and especially those who wrote new papers for this volume. Finally, we thank
Peter Ohlin and Lucy Randall of Oxford University Press, who both provided
impeccable editorial support, and Pete Shulte, who provided the original cover
art drawing.
Sources
Chapter 1
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1714), selection from Monadology. Translated by
Robert Merrihew Adams for this volume.
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1699), selection from letter to De Volder, March 24/
April 3, 1699. Translated by Robert Merrihew Adams for this volume.
Chapter 2
Immanuel Kant, Immanuel (1781), Critique of Pure Reason, A270/B326–A278/B334.
Translated by John Miller Dow Mieklejohn (1855, London: Henry G. Bohn) with
some alterations by Derk Pereboom.
Chapter 3
William James (1891, originally 1890), The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1,
London: Macmillan, pp. 158–61.
viii Acknowledgments
Chapter 4
Bertrand Russell (1927), Analysis of Matter, London: Kegan Paul, pp. 382–93 and
pp. 400–02. Permission by the Russell Foundation
Bertrand Russell (1948), Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits, London: Taylor and
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Chapter 7
Grover Maxwell (1978), “Rigid Designators and Mind–Brain Identity,” C. W. Savage
(ed.), Perception and Cognition, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
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Chapter 8
Michael Lockwood (1993), “The Grain Problem,” in Objections to Physicalism, Howard
Robinson (ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 271–91. Permission by Gilliam
Lockwood and the publisher.
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Galen Strawson (2008), “Real Materialism” (revised version, with postscript),
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Chapter 12
David J. Chalmers, “Panpsychism and Panprotopsychism,” first published as the
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Contributors
Torin Alter is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama, USA.
David J. Chalmers is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for
Consciousness at the Australian National University, Australia, and Professor
of Philosophy at New York University, USA.
Philip Goff is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Central European
University, Hungary.
Robert J.  Howell is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Methodist
University, USA.
William James was a 19th–20th–century American philosopher and psycholo-
gist. He is the founder of pragmatism and a pioneer of American psychology.
Immanuel Kant was an 18th–19th–century German philosopher. He is a cen-
tral figure of late modern philosophy.
Amy Kind is Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College, USA.
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz was a 17th–18th–century German philosopher.
He made major contributions to a wide range of disciplines including philoso-
phy, mathematics, physics, and technology.
Michael Lockwood is Emeritus Fellow of Green Templeton College,
Oxford, UK.
Grover Maxwell was Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Minnesota, USA.
Barbara Gail Montero is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate
Center and the College of Staten Island, City University of New York, USA.
Yujin Nagasawa is Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Birmingham, UK.
Alyssa Ney is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Rochester, USA.